Golf was born in the British Isles, where courses evolved centuries ago from windswept, sandy sites adjacent to the sea. The game has changed since its beginning, but traditions and challenges remain ...

Welcome to Super Secrets, a GOLF.com series in which we pick the brains of the game’s leading superintendents. By illuminating how course maintenance crews ply their trades, we’re hopeful we can not ...

As an avid golfer and a golf-course owner, Ben Best keeps close track of his stats. He knows his handicap index (6) and his swing speed (105 mph with a driver), and he’s well-acquainted with his ...

Golf courses are among the intensely managed turf systems. Different courses – and even different sections of the same course – will use different mowing and fertility strategies. A course's mixture ...

Foraging javelinas, brought out by a hotter-than-average summer, are wreaking havoc on Arizona golf courses this autumn. However, Sedona's Seven Canyons Golf Club believes it's cracked the code to ...

Dollar spot -- the most common, troublesome and damaging turfgrass disease plaguing golf courses -- is becoming increasingly resistant to fungicides applied to manage it, according to researchers.

Aliante Golf Club is the latest Las Vegas Valley course to tear out turf and cut its water use with the help of some space-age technology. About six months ago, staff members from the Southern Nevada ...

Palm Beach is using robotic mowers to cut the grass at its golf course and recreation center. For the past six months, the daily hum of lawn maintenance at Palm Beach's public golf course and the ...

This piece originally appeared on FairWarning. Harold Nisker can be seen on a 1980s home video, golf club in hand, at a course back-dropped by the Rocky Mountains in Banff, Alberta. “I think the ...